2 Peter 1:8 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being useless or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For as these qualities are yours and increasingly abound in you, they will keep [you] from being idle or unfruitful unto the [full personal] knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). American Standard Version (1901) For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Common English Bible If all these are yours and they are growing in you, they’ll keep you from becoming inactive and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Catholic Public Domain Version For if these things are with you, and if they abound, they will cause you to be neither empty, nor without fruit, within the plan of our Lord Jesus Christ. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For if these things be with you and abound, they will make you to be neither empty nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. |
Now the one sown among the thorns #– #this is one who hears the word, but the worries of this age and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
When he went out at about nine in the morning, he saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.
Then at about five he went and found others standing around and said to them, “Why have you been standing here all day doing nothing? ”
‘His master replied to him, “You evil, lazy servant! If you knew that I reap where I haven’t sown and gather where I haven’t scattered,
Every branch in me that does not produce fruit he removes, and he prunes every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce more fruit.
This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and the one you have sent #– #Jesus Christ.
Do not lack diligence in zeal; be fervent in the Spirit; , serve the Lord.
Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labour in the Lord is not in vain.
Test yourselves to see whether you are in the faith. Examine yourselves. Or do you yourselves not recognise that Jesus Christ is in you? #– #unless you fail the test.
During a severe trial brought about by affliction, their abundant joy and their extreme poverty overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.
Now as you excel in everything #– #in faith, speech, knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love for us #– #excel also in this act of grace.
And as they pray on your behalf, they will have deep affection for you because of the surpassing grace of God in you.
And I pray this: that your love will keep on growing in knowledge and every kind of discernment,
More than that, I also consider everything to be a loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. Because of him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them as dung, so that I may gain Christ
so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God,
being rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, and overflowing with gratitude.
Let the word of Christ dwell richly among you, in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another through psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.
And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love for one another and for everyone, just as we do for you.
Additionally then, brothers and sisters, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received instruction from us on how you should live and please God #– #as you are doing #– #do this even more.
We ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, since your faith is flourishing and the love each one of you has for one another is increasing.
At the same time, they also learn to be idle, going from house to house; they are not only idle, but are also gossips and busybodies, saying things they shouldn’t say.
Let our people learn to devote themselves to good works for pressing needs, so that they will not be unfruitful.
I pray that your participation in the faith may become effective through knowing every good thing that is in us for the glory of Christ.
so that you won’t become lazy but will be imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and perseverance.
May grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
His divine power has given us everything required for life and godliness through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
For if, having escaped the world’s impurity through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these things and defeated, the last state is worse for them than the first.
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. ,